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communicate to USB port with vb6

fly747ie · 2006-02-21 19:13:49

Hiya I am doing a project where i now need to communicate from visual basic out through the USB port does anybody have any help?? thanks

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21-02-2006 8:13pm

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fly747ie

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Hiya

I am doing a project where i now need to communicate from visual basic out through the USB port does anybody have any help??

thanks

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#2 21-02-2006 10:43pm
pilson

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I was looking into that for a project of my own. Everywhere I turned I was greeted with negativity. Apparently it is nowhere near as trivial as going through a COM port. If you can use the COM port instead you will have an easier task. Otherwise, you might end up having to read a full textbook (I did not have the time) on usb port communication...
Please let me know if you have any success... :-)

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#3 21-02-2006 11:15pm
daymobrew

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Maybe look at the open source libusb-Win32 library.

Libusb-win32 is a port of the USB library libusb to the Windows operating systems (Win98SE, WinME, Win2k, WinXP). The library allows user space applications to access any USB device on Windows in a generic way without writing any line of kernel driver code.

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